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48 conits, beyond what I have jut mentioned, it is difficult to dicover.

The great misfortune is this, that they both acquire manners before morals, and a knowledge of life before they have, from reflection, any acquaintance with the grand ideal outline of human nature. The conequence is natural; atified with common nature, they become a prey to prejudices, and taking all their opinions on credit, they blindly ubmit to authority. So that, if they have any ene, it is a kind of intinctive glance, that catches proportions, and decides with repect to manners; but fails when arguments are to be purued below the urface, or opinions analyzed.

May not the ame remark be applied to women? Nay, the argument may be carried till further, for they are both thrown out of a ueful tation by the unnatural ditinctions etablihed in civilized life. Riches and hereditary honours have made cyphers of women to give conequence to the numerical figure; and idlenes has produced a mixture of gallantry and depotim into ociety, which leads the very men who are the laves of their mitrees to tyrannize over their iters, wives, and daughters. This is only keeping them in rank and file, it is true. Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever ought for by power, tyrants and enualits are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark, becaue the former only want laves, and the latter a play-thing. The enualit, indeed, has been the mot&ensp;